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Does that mean they’ve solved the problem of radioactive waste?
To help supplement solar power technology, scientists are proposing the use of a new type of solar cell, a nighttime solar cell if you will. These cells are driven by radiative cooling, whereby at night they release radiative heat built up over the day and generate electricity. The new research perspective was published in the January 2020 issue of the peer-reviewed journal ACS Photonics.
Tristan Deppe of the University of Maryland and Jeremy Munday of the University of California, Davis are currently developing prototypes of these new nighttime solar cells. Jeremy Munday explained the concept in more detail in a statement. He said:
A regular solar cell generates power by absorbing sunlight, which causes a voltage to appear across the device and for current to flow. In these new devices, light is instead emitted and the current and voltage go in the opposite direction, but you still generate power. You have to use different materials, but the physics is the same.
Dude, check the calendar.https://earthsky.org/human-world/solar-power-photovoltaic-production-at-night
Producing solar power at night
While this is the first PV system to be able to do this, there are other solar technologies that produce power after the sun goes down.
Dude, check the calendar.
Publication Date: November 20, 2019 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsphotonics.9b00679Dude, check the calendar.
Publication Date: November 20, 2019 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsphotonics.9b00679
Can't access the paper... I expect a low theoretical yield, and an extremely low realistic yield. The most energy here is the buzzing headlines.
I was more thinking about the physics, ie the energy/power involved. When the sun is shining there's hundreds of W/m² shining on the solar panel, in best cases >1000W/m². The temperature differential is massive, so the yield is pretty good.Tends to be the case for new technologies.
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